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2004-04

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Low viscosity contrast fingering in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell

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We study the fingering instability of a circular interface between two immiscible liquids in a radial Hele-Shaw cell. The cell rotates around its vertical symmetry axis, and the instability is driven by the density difference between the two fluids. This kind of driving allows studying the interfacial dynamics in the particularly interesting case of an interface separating two liquids of comparable viscosity. An accurate experimental study of the number of fingers emerging from the instability reveals a slight but systematic dependence of the linear dispersion relation on the gap spacing. We show that this result is related to a modification of the interface boundary condition which incorporates stresses originated from normal velocity gradients. The early nonlinear regime shows nearly no competition between the outgrowing fingers, characteristic of low viscosity contrast flows. We perform experiments in a wide range of experimental parameters, under conditions of mass conservation (no injection), and characterize the resulting patterns by data collapses of two characteristic lengths: the radius of gyration of the pattern and the interface stretching. Deep in the nonlinear regime, the fingers which grow radially outwards stretch and become gradually thinner, to a point that the fingers pinch and emit drops. We show that the amount of liquid emitted in the first generation of drops is a constant independent of the experimental parameters. Further on there is a sharp reduction of the amount of liquid centrifugated, punctuated by periods of no observable centrifugation.

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Dinàmica de fluids, Viscositat, Matemàtica

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Fluid dynamics, Viscosity, Mathematics

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ALVAREZ LACALLE, Enrique, ORTÍN, Jordi and CASADEMUNT I VIADER, Jaume. Low viscosity contrast fingering in a rotating Hele-Shaw cell. Physics of Fluids. 2004. Vol. 16, num. 4, pags. 908-924. ISSN 0021-8979. [consulted: 11 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/24904

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